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TRAVNIK, August 30 (FENA) - Families of 270 Bosniaks and Croats from Kotor Varoš, missing during the past war, marked the International Day of the Disappeared in Travnik today, with the message that finding the remains of their loved ones must be a priority and an obligation for the BiH institutions.
Twenty-seven years ago, husband of Nezira Fifić went missing in Kotor Varoš and to this day, she has no information about his fate.
“Amir was 28 when he disappeared in 1992. I was left alone with two children and without any information whether he was alive or dead. Today, I am only looking for the truth, to find at least a bone, because I lost all hope,” Nezira told reporters.
Munevera Avdić, President of the Association of families of martyrs, captured and missing persons "Vrbanja" from Kotor Varoš told FENA that a total of about 700 Bosniak and Croat persons were killed in the municipality during the 1990s, and that the fate of 270 persons remains unknown to this day.
“In just one day, 161 people disappeared in the village of Grabovica, and the rest, from the very beginning of the war and aggression, were arrested, detained and their traces were lost. We still hope, but families are waiting, living and dying in agony and many, unfortunately, will not even live to see their loved being found,” Avdić said.
Apart from requesting from the competent institutions to speed up the process of finding the missing, Kotor Varoš families also warn that all members of the Republika Srpska military and civilian authorities responsible for war crimes in Kotor Varoš must be held accountable.
(FENA) S. R.
